Can you explain more how to use ASN to detect fraud and how it's different from the country detected for the IP? I thought ASN was derived from the IP, basicall

Can you explain more how to use ASN to detect fraud and how it's different from the country detected for the IP? I thought ASN was derived from the IP, basically the route to that IP? Here's the ipinfo response for an IP used by a recent fraud signup attempt. The asn field matches country. { "city": "Mumbai", "connection": { "asn": 24560, "isp": "Bharti Airtel Ltd." }, "continent_code": "AS", "continent_name": "Asia", "country_code": "IN", "country_name": "India", "currency": { "code": "INR", "name": "Indian Rupee", "plural": "Indian rupees", "symbol": "Rs", "symbol_native": "\u099f\u0995\u09be" }, "ip": "2401:4900:1f38:7402:5569:2e45:3bb:9c0d", "latitude": 19.076000213623047, "location": { "calling_code": "91", "capital": "New Delhi", "country_flag": "https://assets.ipstack.com/flags/in.svg", "country_flag_emoji": "\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3", "country_flag_emoji_unicode": "U+1F1EE U+1F1F3", "geoname_id": 1275339, "is_eu": false, "languages": [ { "code": "hi", "name": "Hindi", "native": "\u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0940" }, { "code": "en", "name": "English", "native": "English" } ] }, "longitude": 72.87770080566406, "region_code": "MH", "region_name": "Maharashtra", "time_zone": { "code": "IST", "current_time": "2023-09-15T10:52:42+05:30", "gmt_offset": 19800, "id": "Asia/Kolkata", "is_daylight_saving": false }, "type": "ipv6", "zip": "400203" } Here's the response from ipinfo.io which includes privacy fields. It's technically a proxy but might be hard to detect because it's probably a crowdsourced/botnet proxy not a public one. We don't pay for { "ip": "2401:4900:1f38:7402:5569:2e45:3bb:9c0d", "city": "Najafgarh", "region": "Delhi", "country": "IN", "loc": "28.6114,77.2982", "org": "AS24560 Bharti Airtel Ltd., Telemedia Services", "postal": "110097", "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata", "asn": { "asn": "AS24560", "name": "Bharti Airtel Ltd., Telemedia Services", "domain": "airtel.com", "route": "2401:4900:1f38::/48", "type": "isp" }, "company": { "name": "ABTS (Karnataka),", "domain": "airtel.com", "type": "isp" }, "privacy": { "vpn": false, "proxy": false, "tor": false, "relay": false, "hosting": false, "service": "" }, "abuse": { "address": "Bharti Airtel Ltd., ISP Division - Transport Network Group, 234 , Okhla Industrial Estate,, Phase III, New Delhi-110020, INDIA", "country": "IN", "email": "ip.misuse@airtel.com", "name": "ABUSE BHARTIIN", "network": "2401:4900:1f30::/44", "phone": "+000000000" } } EDIT: Oops, I confused ipinfo with ipstack. I'm actually using ipstack. Their security field also doesn't detect this IP as a proxy, which is why we only pay for Professional (no security field). { "ip": "2401:4900:1f38:7402:5569:2e45:3bb:9c0d", "type": "ipv6", "continent_code": "AS", "continent_name": "Asia", "country_code": "IN", "country_name": "India", "region_code": "MH", "region_name": "Maharashtra", "city": "Mumbai", "zip": "400203", "latitude": 19.076000213623047, "longitude": 72.87770080566406, "location": { "geoname_id": 1275339, "capital": "New Delhi", "languages": [ { "code": "hi", "name": "Hindi", "native": "\u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0940" }, { "code": "en", "name": "English", "native": "English" } ], "country_flag": "https://assets.ipstack.com/flags/in.svg", "country_flag_emoji": "\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3", "country_flag_emoji_unicode": "U+1F1EE U+1F1F3", "calling_code": "91", "is_eu": false }, "time_zone": { "id": "Asia/Kolkata", "current_time": "2023-09-15T12:27:08+05:30", "gmt_offset": 19800, "code": "IST", "is_daylight_saving": false }, "currency": { "code": "INR", "name": "Indian Rupee", "plural": "Indian rupees", "symbol": "Rs", "symbol_native": "\u099f\u0995\u09be" }, "connection": { "asn": 24560, "isp": "Bharti Airtel Ltd." }, "security": { "is_proxy": false, "proxy_type": null, "is_crawler": false, "crawler_name": null, "crawler_type": null, "is_tor": false, "threat_level": "low", "threat_types": null } }